Steps To Your Better You

What was once (and again will be) overused meme advice to hype hustle culture, the mantra of ‘fail faster’ is our lesson in personal development for the week.

The always controversial tip is back. Make it simple, and find more ways to drink more actual (or close to actual) water.

Your time is precious, and the most precious time you have is right as you get started for the morning. Because the general public has less chance of interfering with your schedule, consider then the right time to schedule exercise.

Focus on trustworthy news sources that look to update and advance the stories, not just produce endless commentary to keep people hooked like a news addict.

Depending on how chatty you choose to be with your phone, you may get notifications for everything from emails to retweets. And they are constant, even in times when you are giving real focus to relaxation. A proper fix is to turn off your alerts and get away from your phone for a while.

Being present does not involve being physically present for every event and moment. It does involve having the presence of mind to realize when a possible moment is happening and where that particular moment is worth skipping to ensure you can create other moments later.

Put all your focus on considering, 'But what if you don't fail?' If you do fail and you don't like it, stop. If you don't fail or fail but still see some fondness in the activity, keep at it.

Just because you feel gloomy doesn't mean you should use that as a mask to show off to the world. Show the world more of your best self (especially when you are not feeling like your best self) and watch as the world reacts more favorably to you.

If Saturday is your sleep-in lazy day and you spend all day Sunday in panic in preparation for Monday, you need to rethink how much of an unstructured day you can have on Saturday

A good-enough teacher can lead a good-enough student to great things, while a lousy student will flounder regardless of what you think about their instructor.

Find the easiest way to start a task that is difficult to do or has a long lead time to success. Success is closer than you think, especially if you deploy the right hacks and take valid shortcuts.

Take broad-spectrum advice like this as needed, but the best way to get help is to ask honest friends who love you.

Remember that all the people who used the same methods and failed do not get platforms to share their lack of success.

You do not need education or anybody’s permission to achieve your goals. Do not waste time seeking approval or overthinking your mission.

As long as you are taking care of your business without interfering in other people’s business, what other people think of you doesn’t matter.

While you should be working as hard as possible to not bring yourself an early death, be vary aware that you are not going to escape that final fate.

You have more confidence when you feel good about the way you look and present yourself. It may be cliché to say, but when you think you look good, you always feel better.

One of the best ways to shake yourself out of a funk is to get a quick win. One of the ways to get a quick win is to make simple plan that is easy to complete to check off the activities.

For every 20 minutes of working in front of a screen, look at a spot 20 feet away for 20 seconds. This program will help you reduce eye strain from long screen exposure and is easy to remember (or at least program reminders to keep you on task).

Life is about developing a legacy that will last beyond your living years, not trying to stretch the living years to an unnatural extension.